Bash: Convert non-ASCII characters to ASCII

bash ascii

Depending on your machine you can try piping your strings through

iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit

(or whatever your encoding is, if it's not utf-8)

bash ascii

You might be able to use iconv.

For example, the string:

Žvaigždės aukštybėj užges or äüöÖÜÄ

is in file testutf8.txt, utf8 format.

Running command:

iconv -f UTF8 -t US-ASCII//TRANSLIT testutf8.txt

results in:

Zvaigzdes aukstybej uzges or auoOUA

bash ascii

echo Hej på dig, du den dära | iconv -f utf-8 -t us-ascii//TRANSLIT

gives:

Hej pa dig, du den dara

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